About
I am rooted in this work and the belief that the client and I are co-creators and adventurers in the process of healing. When we are grounded in the present and in the therapeutic relationship, the awareness and the subsequent understanding of ourselves that emerges can contribute to an alchemical healing process.
I have witnessed, through my process and the process of others, the power and possibility of healing that this kind of work holds. I believe we have an innate capacity for healing. This work helps you to find and nurture the inner healer in you. The work also includes exploring and processing deep relational patterns that can lead to more flow, fulfillment, pleasure and certainty in your life.
I work with empathy, curiosity and creativity to meet clients where they are in their lives. I consider the therapeutic space to be sacred; akin to a laboratory, art studio or garden where we can learn and unlearn, co-creating a nurturing space as we get to know our deepest selves. I work collaboratively with warmth and openness. I invite you to come as you are and hope to meet you there.
I take a somatically and trauma-informed approach, that is slow and gentle in nature, to help clients address and move through any trauma that they may hold. I also work with a liberation psychology lens encouraging greater awareness of our relationships to systemic oppression.
As a farmer/gardener for over 10 years, I am deeply connected to nature and facilitate healing through land-based rituals and ceremonies. Some of my trainings include courses and workshops in Hakomi, Reiki and Jungian dreamwork. I am inspired by gathering, infinite interconnectedness, plant wisdom, movement, poetry, liminal spaces, the ocean, seed sovereignty, art and tarot.
I acknowledge that I am a descendant of white settlers living and practicing on unceded Yelamu, Ramaytush Ohlone land. I pay a rematriation land tax to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and work to dismantle white supremacy.
https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-tax/